Researchers must assess the likelihood of ...

harm, discomfort or inconvenience to participants

The SPICE method for formulating your research question stands for ...

Setting, Perspective, Intervention, Comparison, Evaluation

A representative part or portion of the population being studied

The members of a focus group are selected for ...

those clients with a shared interest, goal, experience or circumstance

Methodology explains ...

The chosen theoretical framework and the methods of a research project

Purposive samples are

Deliberately chosen participants for a specific characteristic

Researchers using interpretive theory ....

Aim to capture participants' subjective meaning of their own world

Inductive research collects data to ...

Test a new theory by looking for patterns/themes and ways to explain them.

Social Work Research and Evaluation differs from social research in that it....

includes a component of program or practice assessment and evaluation.

Research reliability means that ...

That other researchers would reach the same outcome from the same data.

What does rigour mean in research? It means ...

... the research is trustworthy, accurate, reliable and credible

In research the population is

The total group or collection of people from which a sample is drawn

Positivist theory promotes values of ....

truth, logic, reason, objectivity and validity

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Research and Evaluation Quiz 2021

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Researchers must assess the likelihood of ...
benefits, risk or travel to participants
conflict, arguments or disagreements with participants
harm, discomfort or inconvenience to participants
position, privilege or power of participants
2
The SPICE method for formulating your research question stands for ...
Service, Phenomenon of interest, Impact, Client, Expectation
Setting, Perspective, Impact, Client, Evaluation
Sample, Professionals, Intervention, Clients, Setting
Setting, Perspective, Intervention, Comparison, Evaluation
3
A research sample is
A random group of people available to the social worker
All the people in the targeted population
A representative part or portion of the population being studied
All of the above
4
The members of a focus group are selected for ...
those who have good client/social worker relationships
those clients with a shared interest, goal, experience or circumstance
those who will challenge each other’s opinions
those clients who will give positive responses
5
Methodology explains ...
How you might change social work practice to achieve social justice
The findings of qualitative interview processes
The chosen theoretical framework and the methods of a research project
The philosophical approach to how the researcher thinks
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Purposive samples are
The sample type that Royal Commissions commonly use
Clients who have a purpose and an issue to address
Deliberately chosen participants for a specific characteristic
All of the above
7
Questionnaires may include
Evaluating behaviour’s, preferences etc.
qualitative (open-ended questions) and quantitative (closed questions).
All of the above.
a written set of questions used for collecting information.
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Ethics are the moral codes and conducts of a society that we live by.
False
True
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Researchers using interpretive theory ....
Aim to capture the discourses that create reality
Aim to capture participants' objective meaning of their own world
Aim to provide knowledge about power to participants
Aim to capture participants' subjective meaning of their own world
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Inductive research collects data to ...
Make visual representations in graphs using quantitative data.
Test a new theory by looking for patterns/themes and ways to explain them.
prove something we already know.
support a hypothesis or theory.
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Using quantitative and qualitative methods in a project ...
Is not allowed and is unreliable
Can confuse the participants
is a mixed method approach
Won’t be recognised in academic literature
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Which of the following terms relates to a theory of knowledge and the unwritten rules about how we come to "know"?
epistemology
ontology
axiology
relativism
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Which of the following must not occur in ethical social work research?
Deception as long as the participant is renumerated
Make clients feel obligated to participate
All of the above
Obtain consent without providing information
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Social Work Research and Evaluation differs from social research in that it....
is purely statistical and uses quantative methods.
includes interviewing politicians.
must include social media for surveys and interviews.
includes a component of program or practice assessment and evaluation.
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Social Work Research and Evaluation aims for and checks ...
that social work interventions are accessible and equitable.
that social work interventions are safe
that social work interventions are effective.
All of the above
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Research reliability means that ...
The research can selectively report some of the data to bias the findings
All of the above
The researchers turn up on time for work
That other researchers would reach the same outcome from the same data.
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What does rigour mean in research? It means ...
... the research is trustworthy, accurate, reliable and credible
... different things to different researchers depending on the discipline.
... the research is better and stronger than other research in the field
... the research is strong and tough
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Transcribing and data analysis of interviews is
Uncontrollable
lengthy
Easy
Quick
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In research the population is
The total group or collection of people from which a sample is drawn
The total group or collection of people wanting to participate
All of the above.
The total group in an area defined by the ABS
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Positivist theory promotes values of ....
honesty, integrity and transparency
truth, logic, reason, objectivity and validity
justice, understanding, knowledge and subjectivity
subjectivity, anti-oppression and justice

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